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Jeffrey A. Zucker '86, the executive producer of NBC's "Today" show and a former Crimson president, said he has worked closely with Brokaw for several years and that the senior class made "a great choice...
Brokaw, Couric and Today executive producer Jeffrey Zucker planned strategy for the interview aboard a chartered plane to Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. They were helped by hundreds of proposed questions supplied by NBC staff members, reporters and legal analysts. (Members of the prosecution team declined to give any help.) The journalists were keenly aware that the interview would be placed under almost impossible scrutiny. "It was going to be really hard to strike the right balance," says Couric. "To be challenging and do follow-ups, but not be too prosecutorial." One strategic decision made early on: the interviewee would...
...WOULD ASK CHIRAC, "EXACTLY FOR whom does France need a nuclear deterrent?" Surely, the problems of rampant terrorism and growing public distaste for your political hubris cannot be affected by such tactics. The world does not need a Western Vladimir Zhirinovsky. MICHAEL ZUCKER Tel Aviv Via E-mail...
...every era has the right--maybe even the duty--to reinvent the Arthurian legend according to its lights, and so there is something instructive and entertaining about this version. Director Jerry Zucker has not spared the horses (or the broadswords) in mounting his handsome production. There are well-staged, smartly edited bursts of action at the approved modern intervals (every 10 minutes or so), the scenery is always pretty, and aside from Ben Cross's villain (imagine Pat Buchanan in not-so-shining armor), everyone is terribly nice, terribly agreeable. They are pleasant, altogether reasonable companions on this curiously jaunty...
Such sinuous twists of plot may have proven too difficult for this retelling to navigate, however, and it is not altogether bad that Zucker decided to change the story...